HISTORY OF THE STRAND HALL

In 1876 two market halls were built, Wyeside and the Strand Hall.

The owner Mr Oliver Morgan Bligh of Cilmary Park chose to use yellow bricks for the building of the Strand Hall. He used a semi classical style with a rose window in the pediment.

The look of the building might have been passed as a Nonconformist chapel with its side isles, porch and narthex. The Bligh coats of arms, with the family motto of ‘Finem Respice’, ‘Consider the end’, enclosed in a medallion is positioned in the porch.

The first Bligh to inherit the estate of the Price family of Cilmeri near Builth was Thomas Price Bligh : he was succeeded by his brother, Oliver Morgan Bligh , who kept a draper's shop in Brecon . They were a branch of the Blighs of Cornwall whose most distinguished member was William Bligh of the ‘Bounty ’, Vice-Admiral of the Blue.

“Finem Respice”

— CONSIDER THE END

In 1876 two market halls were built, Wyeside and the Strand Hall.

The owner Mr Oliver Morgan Bligh of Cilmary Park chose to use yellow bricks for the building of the Strand Hall. He used a semi classical style with a rose window in the pediment.

The look of the building might have been passed as a Nonconformist chapel with its side isles, porch and narthex. The Bligh coats of arms, with the family motto of ‘Finem Respice’, ‘Consider the end’, enclosed in a medallion is positioned in the porch.

The first Bligh to inherit the estate of the Price family of Cilmeri near Builth was Thomas Price Bligh : he was succeeded by his brother, Oliver Morgan Bligh , who kept a draper's shop in Brecon . They were a branch of the Blighs of Cornwall whose most distinguished member was William Bligh of the ‘Bounty ’, Vice-Admiral of the Blue.